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Before anyone goes out and does this research supply of planes. Locked up for many years to come from Boeing and Airbus. CEO of American Airlines outlines this in details and suggests fairs will go up and stay up as a result. Not sure if he's right but he seems pretty sure of it.

I think he was right to offer the trial and then right to change strategies after the product got more refined. Can't jump to the top of the mountain in one leap. Still interesting data point!

FB has pimping down so cold I gotta tip my hat to Zuck! Gotta love how they "gameify" customer communication. The message to every business was... everything has changed... now all that matters is FB likes. Don't ask why just chase that... Ok cool, got a bunch of likes now? Ok now we're gonna restrict your posts and make you pay every time you want to reach them. God forbid you just ask for customers phone number or Email? Instead we run your list for you... and we repeatedly resell portions of your customer access back to you via some mysterious and ever changing algorithm. Now that my friends is pimpin!

That's horrifying!

I mean, it's time. Right?! I am tempted to lock myself in a room for 3 months and just invent a half decent UI for them as a gift to humanity. Their interface says F off humanity. I'm not even good at UI design, not even a little... but I could still do them a service. Or they could just keep suing people?! Why don't they just provide an API and charge for it? They'd make billions and I wouldn't have to feel like my eyeballs got raped every time I need to post/view something.

Fascinating question

Wow!

Die Craigslist, Die!

I agree the article is potentially harmful. The paradox is that people who DO NOT have ADHD easily get hooked on meds but people who DO have ADHD hate taking meds. Saying ADHD doesn't exist is cruel and shows how badly it's misunderstood. The newer drugs that have countermeasures that prevent snorting/abusing should change the debate. Older meds that can be easily abused should be taken off the market. Then let's see who wants to abuse them? Anyone with any proximity to ADHD kids knows getting them to take their meds is a chore, they enjoy just being themselves and perhaps the bigger questions is WHY DO WE HAVE TO MEDICATE PEOPLE TO MAKE ENGAGE IN AN EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT SUCKS?! EH? I'm proud I don't sit still and do what I'm told, I don't think that's an illnes... so in that sense they are right ADHD doesn't exist! (steps down from soapbox, exit stage right) :)

I am stalking Lob :) I respect what those folks are doing and may be a client/reseller soon. IMO the pricing now reflects what the end user is willing to pay but when it gets lower it will allow my company to integrate their services and resell them for a small profit (to fund the work). I'm looking for signs from Lob that they are going to be like Twilio, fanatically supporting users... constantly lowering the price and being dead simple/easy to use. They seem on the right track but trust is the most important part of API sales, again IMO.

I really don't mean to offend people running or participating in good incubators. I stipulate that YC, 500 and Techstars and others are run by people who know what they are doing and work to contribute to the success of their members. They are not the problem.

“When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.” ― Randy Pausch

"They treat it like traction." Agreed! Just got an email tonight from a guy who is so pumped to get into an incubator and I was like... ummmm... You are being pimped. I sent him your post.

Agreed. People with no clue how to create and scale a business have copied a formula developed by people who actually do understand this. This isn't just not helpful, it's actively harmful. By anointing themselves as the local "conveyor belt" for interesting companies and talented entrepreneurs incubators have created confusion in the market that harms perfectly good founders who do not participate. People say... "you should apply for XYZ accelerator" and my reply is... "why?" Is there any reason to other than that other people do? It has become a sort of tax or validation stamp that we are all expected to seek out... and after that go on Shark Tank?! Then at some point we get acquired by Yahoo?

Successful startup outcomes and solvency in the incubator world are not correlated well. The companies that are selected are carefully directed through a maze of expensive professional services controlled by the program directors. The bargain becomes... if you use this lawyer, this PR consultant and this accounting firm we will support you. What this means is that every failed startup isn't really a failure because in the end that company spends all their money paying off the incubator's network. It's an engine of corruption that takes advantage of people and companies that can least afford it. Whether they create any real startup success is not especially relevant to their continued survival, it's just a bonus.

Many incubator programs also tends to select for people who are very well behaved, polite and have simple A to B ideas. True disruptive innovation is usually created by disruptive people who have very big ideas.

I don't think incubators really intend to hurt founders or the market, but they do.

Top of market

"Skunk Works" by Ben R Rich is a great book about the Lockheed guys and the SR-71 + F117. They were basically running a startup at Lockheed.

How convenient that one can just post the spoils of war on ebay now.

Congrats! Go PDX!

Say you want LinkedIn messages to import to your CRM but they don't offer integration. Zapier the email notifications for your application. It's API by force, if companies don't let you in the front door just use another entrance.

Called it (kinda) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7065897

"...this idea seems like a solid game plan for Blackberry? They could rename their company "Black" ala P-Diddy v just Diddy. :)" Got the name right, wrong company. Nobody is perfect.

Yeah, just discouraging to see so many successful people using shady tactics. I think it's a lot more rewarding to succeed without being shady, and maybe a lot of people agree and that's just not newsworthy?

Loved it, Hypercard was my first programming experience :)

Agreed, it's a cold world and sometimes you gotta get your hands dirty.

If tech had a truly free market for talent it would be wild! You'd have top tier coders signing pro athlete sized contracts regularly. I can see why they use patent litigation as a weapon to prevent this, clever and sinister.

Great article! Like many of you I have worked with great teams and bad teams. In my experience a great UI/UX is a sign of a great team/company with a clear focus. The designers and engineers cannot fight for whose approach is superior, they must respect and understand each other and the user intent. They have to communicate well and sometimes invent new options together when their views or constraints are in conflict. This requires talent, teamwork and a focus on excellence at a level that cannot be faked.

You had me there till the end... Maybe just rent the Ferrari and the girl :)

Hilarious!

I don't know to what extent this is a joke but I am not laughing. Yc is a school where they pay you, Paul Graham et al did not take over Airbnb or Dropbox... the people who founded those companies run them.

The idea that a life is worthless or wasted if you make less money is beyond flawed. It is the most american/capitalist/rewarding thing to make a go of building something of your own.

Being a wall street banker has virtually no social utility. Airbnb and Dropbox improve the collective productivity of society and make real markets in the case of Airbnb. If it takes hundreds of people and millions of dollars failing in an effort to make a few big winners so be it, and when Yc makes money in the process they deserve it. They are taking REAL risk, and it seems the people who emerge from their program are better for it even if their dreams don't all come true.

Finally, the girl next to him is an important part of this little story. Women love men who are passionate, who are alive and who take risks. If all of society fell apart I'd much rather be with a bunch of hackers than bankers, the hackers are creative, passionate, loving and ruthless when necessary. Women understand this and they they love it... because they know they are always safe with a man who can build something. They'd rather eat Mac & Cheese with a man who puts up a good fight before kneeling down THE MAN... or maybe never has to kneel at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuDRGuOVjvU

Will someone please tell them to remove the clips in their video of testing a white phone in the interest of brand consistency? Also this idea seems like a solid game plan for Blackberry? They could rename their company "Black" ala P-Diddy v just Diddy. :)

Thanks for sharing bugcrowd. Interesting.